Too Late to Awaken by Slavoj Žižek
The most provocative philosopher of our times returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicament We hear all the time that it's five minutes to global doomsday, so now is our last chance to avert disaster. But what if the only way to prevent a catastrophe is to assume that it has already happened - that we're already five minutes past zero hour? Why do we seem unable to avert our course to self-destruction? Too Late to Awaken sees Slavoj Žižek deliver his most forceful, hopeful account of our discontents yet. Surveying the interlocking crises we currently face - global warming, war, famine, disease - he points us towards the radical, emancipatory politics that we need in order to halt our drift towards disaster. Pithy, urgent and witty, Žižek's diagnosis reveals our current geopolitical nightmare in a startling new light, and shows why, in order to change our future, we must reimagine our past.
The most dangerous philosopher in the West -- Adam Kirsch * New Republic *
Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation * New Yorker *
Never ceases to dazzle -- Brian Dillon * Daily Telegraph *
Žižek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the '80s: the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard * Observer *
Žižek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative
Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation * New Yorker *
Never ceases to dazzle -- Brian Dillon * Daily Telegraph *
Žižek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the '80s: the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard * Observer *
Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241651759 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241651751 |
| Title | Too Late to Awaken |
| Author | Slavoj Žižek |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2023-11-02 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
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